Tech website Gizmodo scored a huge scoop by getting its hands on Apple’s next iPhone, but now things have gotten nasty: police have raided the editor’s house, seizing his computers.
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Should Gizmodo have paid for the leaked iPhone?
Gizmodo got a major scoop with the leaking of the new iPhone. Foster Kamer talks to Gawker Media head honcho Nick Denton about Steve Jobs’ angry phone call, the ethics of publishing the scoop and whether they’re on Apple’s black list now.
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Apple’s next iPhone
Some soon-to-be-fired (or worse) Apple employee accidentally left the new, unreleased Jesus Phone in a Silicon Valley bar. Gizmodo found it, swears it’s the real deal, and has disassembled it for your pleasure.
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Twitter app makers plot a revolution
Twitter has bought-out Twitter iPhone app Tweetie, and the folks who have made all the other third-party Twitter clients are pissed — rumour is that they’re now plotting “Project Shark”: a scheme to replace Twitter with an “open” alternative.
Adobe: “Go screw yourself Apple”
Apple has once again shut out Adobe’s multimedia platform Flash from the iPhone. Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow tells Steve Jobs and co where to go.
All the new iPhone features
Steve Jobs has revealed the new features of the next iPhone makeover, and there are some huge changes: a new interface, app folders, iBooks, bluetooth keyboards and the long-awaited addition of multitasking. Gizmodo has the full list.
Will iPad kill Google?
Screw Microsoft, the biggest worry for Google is Apple and its iPad. Why? Because when you play online with your iPad or iPhone — reading newspapers, checking the weather etc — you use apps, not Google.
iPhone app maps US sex offenders — on Sydney streets
A popular iPhone app has been falsely listing American sex offenders as living in Sydney suburbs, raises privacy concerns, fears of vigilantism and questions about Apple’s own internal policies, writes James West.
The love that dare not speak its name: Microsoft workers and their iPhones
They love their Jesus phones down at Microsoft, with 10,000 iPhone users accessing the Microsoft employee email system last year. Its much to the chagrin of Microsoft bosses, with workers now attempting to hide their iPhones from Apple hating execs.
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Apple’s secret iPhone Developer Agreement
The previously secret agreement all Apple app developers are required to sign has been made public through a very clever legal loophole (the NASA app meant it was FOI-able). Read it in all its super-strict glory.
Apple and Google: how the romance died
In 2007, Google and Apple happily waked into the new media landscape hand-in-hand. Just three years later, and the two are at each other’s throats in the court room. How did it all go so wrong?
Apple’s war on porn: bikinis = no, Victoria Secret underwear = yes
The latest ban by Apple on pornography in apps seems to have a distinct bias. If you’re a big media company that Apple doesn’t want to piss off, it’s fine to have adult content. But not if you’re an indie developer.
Microsoft unveils its iPhone killer
Microsoft has uncovered its Windows Phone 7 Series, and Gizmodo declares it “groundbreaking”. With Apple, Google and Microsoft now ruling the smartphone market, “Phones are officially computers that happen to fit in your pocket.”
Fascist dictators? There’s an app for that
The current top-selling iPhone app in Italy isn’t Flight Control, Tweetie or FourSquare: it’s iMussolini, a collection of 100 speeches by Benito Mussolini. Holocaust survivors and Jewish groups are predictable unimpressed.
Tech journos, take note on your iPads: cheering Steve Jobs isn’t journalism
The only thing worse than the hype surrounding the Apple iPad launch is enduring the fawning reaction of the Apple evangelists in the days following, writes Christopher Scanlon.
E-books: publishers need to get with the program
Book publishers been twiddling their thumbs on e-books for years, but the success of Amazon’s Kindle and the looming Apple Tablet is about to force their hands, writes Mark Davis.
How a 3G mobile data plan can cost you thousands
1Gb of data with Virgin Mobile costs $15 a month, but 2Gb in a month will cost you $2097 — and the excess charges can be racked up without your knowledge or consent. A disgruntled customer explains how.
Shut up iPhone snobs, Nexus One has landed
Thank god a new toy has arrived in the form of Google’s Nexus One, hopefully ending some of the superiority iPhone zealots hold dear. Apple’s dribbling devotees are a boring dime a dozen, writes Helen Razer.
Jesus phone 2.0? Google launches their smart phone
After much speculation and anticipation, Google has finally released Nexus One, its own smart phone which runs on the Android operating system. Can the Nexus One beat the iPhone in the superphone wars?
iTunes names the best apps of 2009
Apple’s iTunes has named the “best” (in its staffers’ opinions, presumably) and top selling apps for 2009 — everything from Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals to the obvious Flight Control to Crikey favourite Tweetie 2.
Kicking out the rotten Apple
After catching a Chinese iPhone app developer pulling a dodgy on the App Store’s product rating system, Apple booted them and their 1,000 apps. Atlantic Wire wraps up what the pundits are saying: did Apple do good or not enough to fight junk apps?
Telstra’s iPhone stuff-up: network is no (3) gee whiz
In a bid to curb an exodus of customers to Optus and Vodafone, Telstra last week announced that it would be reducing the cost of iPhone handsets by $100 until Christmas.
The 20 best gadgets of the decade
iPods, flash drives, smart phones and eReaders: the noughties was truly the decade gadgetry came into its own. Paste looks at the 20 most innovative and important gadgets of 2000-2009.
Move over, Apple: get ready for the Google Phone
It’s only been a rumour until now, but TechCrunch says it can now confirm: Google is making its own mobile phone, and it should be out early next year. Time for Steve Jobs to start sweating?
